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>From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: About movies (end - solution)
>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:05:17 -0700
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>Sivakatirswami wrote:
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> > Well, I was the one who forwarded that solution to the mysterious HBM...off
> > list.
> >
> > There seems to be some Windoz bug relating to the "get the effective
> > directory of this stack," where, if the stack is on the root level of the
> > CD, the effective directory is "messed up" for some reason... I am no
> expert
> > and initially thought this to be an MC problem, until a young 18 year old
> > wizard with certificate for PC repair and trouble shooting told me
> > "Yeah...windoz has this directory problem in many contexts, it's not your
> > software...just throw everthing into a folder and it will work." I believe
> > someone else on this list also gave the same answer, last year. So I tried
> > it..viola, all images refs and movie file refs suddenly started to work.
> > I'm no expert...but WHEW! (whatever works) and you get the job done.
>
>The scenario I need is one in which the standalone resides on the user's
>computers, and the media is in a folder in the root of the CD. Is that at
>risk?
strange..
I am developing a multimedia app on 1 CD containing both mac & pc with the
main executables in the root & the video/quicktime stuff in a data folder &
things work fine .. except for retaining custom mac icons & memory settings
(but I've solved this with a app called CDEveryWhere (www.CDEveryWhere.com).
I use the standard..
on resetDir
get the effective fileName of this stack
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put empty into last item of it
set the directory to it
set the itemDelimiter to comma
end resetDir
& use the line...
set the filename of player "introvideo" to "data/iv2.dat"
"iv2.dat" is a normal flattened quicktime4 movie with 1 mp3 sound track & 1
sorenson video track
I read through the mailing list archives of other peoples experience with
sound only movies & I did have the stutter problem but I solved this by
making the looping background soundtrack an "AIFF" (using play audioClip)
and other 1 off sounds as smaller mp3s (using play videoClip).. I was
concerned about the delay in loading a large .aif but managed to produce a
clean 8-bit version which halved the size but it is still 20 meg compared
with the 9meg mp3. I settled on this only after trying a hundred different
ways of compressing the sound both sample & codec-wise & a hundred ways of
setting up a player object.
The play audioClip command seems to give the audio more priority or maybe
it's because there is little processing involved with playback of a
uncompressed .aif file.. It would be nice if either A) MC supported
compressed .aif or B) the quicktime playback didnt stutter with sound only
files.. or maybe even C) builtin support for mp3s using play audioclip
The app is being developed using MC 2.4b3 now b4 on a w2k machine with
testing done on a older Blue G3.
regards
alex
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